Interplanetary accelerator could be used to send units to attack sectors late-game

egfthomas commented 11 months ago

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My 5yo son and I play Mindustry all the time. Thank you for creating this fantastic game! I found this game when looking for open source simcity-like games for him and I to play and it has become our favorite game of all time. I've bought it on Steam for him and I and our friends. He was asking me where the units come from in defense sectors. I explained that adjacent sectors with enemy bases send units to attack - and we came up with this idea.

Late game, after defeating all named sectors (Serpulo only) the interplanetary accelerator could be used to send units to attack and capture adjacent uncaptured sectors - (IE fab the units in the captured sector and "launch" them with the IA device or with some other launchpad type block). I understand this may be difficult to attack cores in sectors where the attacking team does not actually have a core, but it would really bring the story of Serpulo full-circle - you start out with enemies coming in from adjacent sectors and finish the planet by doing the same.

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This would be a nice storyline enhancement and would fit the existing mechanics of the game. If you're like my 5yo (and me!) wondering when first starting this game how the enemy is attacking you from afar, you would get to do the same thing later in the game to finish off Serpulo.

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egfthomas commented 11 months ago

Note; I found this on Trello but it's not quite the same: https://trello.com/c/TogJg9CP/612-sector-transfer

overdramaticpanromantic commented 11 months ago

i like this (yeag)

yesC48 commented 11 months ago

same

Mythril382 commented 11 months ago

I always though they were dropped in from an unseen air unit, possibly just oct.

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